If you love your animal’s and want to keep it.. it won’t get stolen , hit by a car , decimate wild birds , get into territorial brawls and come home wounded , or now the other way around cats and small dogs are now the hunted.. Fisher cats ,coyote and even Large red tailed hawks are capable of taking pets !
Now with deer ticks becoming more of a problem and feral cat problems. shooting a cat though infuriating. is Not as cruel as the cats getting smacked by a car.

Don’t give me a cat NEEDS to be outdoors… they don’t. Cats adjust fine not being let out of your house Keep them indoors . less you have a farm and a mouse problem cats should stay inside.. if you say you love them then you have no issue keeping inside if you can’t keep them inside then you should not have pets ..( don’t let them out )

Amen. My cats live indoors. It helps that I have a giant victorian house (four cats only though, our rule) so they have plenty of room to get around, explore, look out windows and I’m thinking about trying to install a rooftop ‘lookout room’ on top of the sun porch (screened so they don’t get heartworm from mosquitos).